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Sentencing Announced for Operator
 

Operating illegal internet gambling in the United States is getting more dangerous by the day for the illegal operators. Although criminal activity is nothing new, especially not in the betting, bookmaking, and gambling industries, when the prohibition of online casino gambling in the United States, it seems that more and more underground operations are illegally taking bets. The latest case is actually several years old, but the courts have finally announced the sentencing for the New Jersey internet betting operator, Vincent Filipelli. Filipelli, known as Big Vince through his online casino betting operation, just finished serving a five-year sentence and is looking at another 3-4 years in state prison.

Filipelli plead guilty to operating an internet-based betting operation - and though the charges he faced for inter-state racketeering are severe, his longer sentence came from threats he issued to an undercover police officer. Filipelli met the individual in person and threatened the undercover officer because of unpaid betting debt owned to the online casino betting operation. Filipelli didn’t go beyond verbally threatening the officer, but that was enough to land him in a federal prison for five years. The threats were caught on both video and audio tape – there was no way that Filipelli could get around the charges, although his lawyers sought a lower sentence, arguing that Filipelli never intended on acting on the threats, but merely used the threats as a way to ensure payment from a gambling debt.

Regardless though of the argument, Filipelli will remain in prison thanks to the latest charges related directly to his online casino betting operation. The national media have really latched on to this case, as it is one of the first of many internet-related arrests and prosecutions that are scheduled for the coming years.